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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill ... helping us to better understand your experience at MIT---and more important, what we can do to make it better. For example…  Are you able to balance

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find ... afternoon. then i walked down newbury street from mass ave to the library and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  ’re excited to meet other new MIT admits so we want to let you know about some ... and other great alumni to put together admitted student gatherings to help welcome you to MIT. Beginning this Saturday, MIT alumni from around

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep ... according to Wikipedia: 546 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths of King Totila

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  Applications its time to start meeting you all! Kim was kind enough to let me guest post on her blog to let you know about some exciting opportunities ... Alumni to put together Admitted Student Gatherings to welcome you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  the middle of Killian Court. Alerted to the hack by email and word of ... of higher learning and crawled out of their rooms to stand in awe of ... my camera having trouble focusing (not to mention coming close to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  So, my last few weeks have been no fun. To put it lightly. My main ... suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at ... . Massachusetts Avenue, so often clogged with cars, was transformed. It belonged to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  be going insane trying to eat 500 lbs of food, watch people juggle with ... basically not sleep for an entire weekend. Current students/bloggers love to ... is why we like to let YOU blog CPW. Bryan started this system two years

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  freebie entry, an entry in which all we have to do is share with you our schedules and then we can feel accomplished. I present to you, my weekly ... and learn about control systems, feedback loops, and attempt to drown

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  many murals on campus. :) I'd also like to give a quick shout out to ... Costume Design for Theater class she took last semester, and I have to say ... wondering why, exactly, I chose to dress up as a Renaissance duke, especially

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  me (maybe that's a good thing?), but I come to you today with important ... us in addition to the many activities they're planning for Campus ... -spanking-new Faculty/Admitted Student Luncheon. This is going to be an awesome, low

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  Isaacson. Add to that list Melis Anahtar, MIT senior, Mechanical Engineering ... immunology. Melis is (according to this list) the 38th MIT student to win the ... coverage of the Rhodes announcement: It occurred to Melis N. Anahtar's family

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... practice. Pretty damn cool if I may say so. I was acting as an escort to Dean ... Deans and drove them to Briggs field where the flight demonstrations were

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... decisions on which students to admit. We'll provide advice and tips wherever ... students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  write moving your mail closer and closer to your mailbox. We have mailed ... over the phone to the applicant only. People have asked about the ... of the early pool, I must say just how difficult it was to narrow it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where ... down to 14E-304: a cozy little seminar room with a central table and ... two fields can come together to construct human history. Even more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  South America, but she managed to squeeze in some time for an interview for us! Listen to the full interview here: I hoped you enjoyed me fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and reestablish some continuity of self—to read, to go for walks, to look people in the eye and put down electronics when we talk, to go to bed and get up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015